On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:03:27PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:39 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:38:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > I'm going to guess that Telmex is a state-owned utility and not a > > > private monopoly? That would explain the better service right > > > there... > > > > I don't know how it is elsewhere, but in Romania the telephone company > > got a LOT better after being privatised. > > Privatization works in third-world economies. Give it time: As soon > as they realize they're a monopoly and has a newly relatively rich > Romanian public by the balls, expect service to decline and prices to > climb. Day 396 waiting for Qwest to fix my broken phone line... Who said they are a monopoly? They have to fight against cable providers who are now also offering telephone+internet. This is the real solution. A monopoly is bad whether private OR state-owned. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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